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...years the water level would gradually inch up to form an inland sea about half as big as Lake Erie. After that, the rapid evaporation in the hot desert air plus some seepage and regulation of the water intake would keep the level permanently some 150 ft. below sea level, providing the United Arab Republic with a perpetual source of power. Estimated cost of the project: $360 million...
...dream of an inland capital of Brazil is an old one; it was written into the constitution of 1891. But after decades of lip service, nobody took the project seriously, even after an Ithaca, N.Y. aerial mapping expert picked a site in 1955, much as Brazil's patron saint predicted, at 15° 30 min. latitude in the state of Goiás. Kubitschek's first encounter with the project came from a heckler at a Goiás rally during the 1955 campaign. "What about Brasilia?" yelled the heckler. Kubitschek yelled back: "I will implement the constitution...
...Taxes," as Inland Steel Vice President William Caples says, "are the main reason for the existence of stock options." For it is only with a stock option that a company executive in the 50% tax bracket can hope to keep more money than he pays the Government. Today, an estimated 60% of the companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange offer executive stock-option plans...
Amidst the dry, gum-tree scrub of Rum Jungle, 60 miles inland from the Timor Sea, miners clad only in boots and shorts drilled uranium out of soft slate. At Woomera, where the waterless South Australian plain stretches endlessly off to the horizon, romantically named drones and missiles-Jindiviks, Blue Streaks and Black Knights-soared over the free world's largest land rocket range. In beach-girt Sydney, schoolteachers and tram conductors exchanged stock market tips, and in stately Adelaide, where Australia's first major Festival of the Arts was in full swing, T. S. Eliot...
...surrounding seas and inland lakes of the U.S. are the world's stronghold of skindiving. Since World War II, U.S. swimmers have created a mass sport out of a pastime that once belonged to an adventuresome few. This week some 1,000,000 dedicated U.S. skindivers are getting ready for their biggest year. They are pro halfbacks, harried housewives, gawky teenagers. Detroit tycoons, retired schoolmarms sunning in Miami. For skindiving has the great virtue of letting each swimmer make his own terms with the deep. With no need to compete or excel, the skindiver can choose...